GAIA Global Health

If you haven’t yet made your year-end charitable gift, we hope you'll consider giving to GAIA in the last few days of 2024. Your donation helps provide life-saving care, support local healthcare workers, and strengthen communities. Together, we can create lasting change. Please visit https://tinyurl.com/GAIA24 to donate, or click the link in our bio for alternate ways of giving.

Wishing you all a joyful and restful holiday season from the GAIA Global Health team! As we reflect on the year, we're grateful for the partnerships, progress, and shared commitment to building healthier, more equitable communities worldwide. Here's to a bright and impactful New Year ahead!

Under the PEPFAR-funded Nursing Leadership Initiative, GAIA supported the National Organization of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi in launching the Malawi Journal of Nursing and Midwifery (MJNM)! The first of its kind, MJNM will feature a variety of health publications, case studies, policy analyses, and expert opinions, all aimed at strengthening health systems in Malawi and across Africa.

GAIA is proud to partner with the National Organization of Nurses and Midwives of Malawi and Kamuzu University of Health Sciences for the inaugural Scientific Nurse Leadership Conference in Lilongwe, under the PEPFAR-funded Nursing Leadership Initiative. Over 400 participants from Malawi and neighboring countries gathered to discuss HIV/AIDS solutions and advancing Universal Health Coverage.
A big thank you to all who contributed to this important step toward a healthier, more equitable future!

This , join us in supporting GAIA’s mission to combat HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Your donation helps provide life-saving care, support local healthcare workers, and strengthen communities. Together, we can create lasting change. Give the gift of health today at https://tinyurl.com/GAIA24

This , we celebrate GAIA’s impact on Malawi’s remarkable progress in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic.With support from GAIA’s proven programs, over 90% of HIV+ Malawians are now virally suppressed, and the country is on track to end the epidemic by 2030. There’s still work to be done; GAIA remains committed to sustainable, impactful support through primary healthcare and strengthening the local health workforce. Learn more at gaiaglobalhealth.org.

Charity, a young nursing student in her final year is one of GAIA’s grads-to-be. She calls her GAIA scholarship “life changing,” not merely because it covered tuition for a poor young woman from a rural village, but because the wrap-around support eased her stress and allowed her to excel in school. Your generosity realizes the dreams of hundreds of aspiring nurses like Charity. And there’s more to be done—please consider giving the gift of health this holiday season at https://tinyurl.com/GAIA24

Nelson, a 47-year-old from Kanyenga, struggled with HIV and TB due to living far away from health facilities. After turning to the GAIA Mobile Health Clinic, he received antiretroviral and TB medications locally. Today, Nelson is healthy, his viral load is low, and he is grateful to be back working in his garden. Your generosity provides life-saving care for thousands of Malawians like Nelson. And there’s more to be done—please consider giving the gift of health this holiday season at https://tinyurl.com/GAIA24

As 2024 draws to a close, we hope that you support GAIA as part of your year-end philanthropy. Your charitable dollars go a very long way in Malawi, bringing compassionate, professional healthcare to children and their families. Please visit https://tinyurl.com/GAIA24 to donate, or click the link in our bio for alternate ways of giving.

Thank you to our incredible sponsors for supporting our Global Citizen Award Reception honoring Dr. Dean Winslow this past weekend!

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Sunday to honor Dr. Dean Winslow with GAIA’s Global Citizen Award. It was a wonderful reception celebrating Dean, and the generous support of our sponsors and attendees will help ensure GAIA’s work continues to make a lasting impact.

GAIA's Executive Director Todd Schafer and US Board Chair Tim Mohan spent last week visiting our programs in Malawi. Here's a message from Todd about one of their days in Mangochi:

"Board Chair Tim Mohan and I had a great day at the Michael Gottlieb Mobile Health Clinic today in Mangochi. We were pleased to see the strong partnership with the District Health Office in evidence, with two district clinical staff assigned to the clinic and plenty of donated medicines on hand. I always ask the assembled clients how far they have come and was heartened that almost all had walked less than 30 minutes...and then learned that in the absence of the mobile clinic the walk would have been 2 hours or more! It's always good to be in the presence of GAIA's committed staff and seeing the clinics function as designed!"

Thank you to all who attended our Spring Garden Party in Marin on June 15th. It was a wonderful afternoon honoring Christine Simpson Brent for her remarkable contributions to GAIA.

GAIA is excited to share that our Mobile Health Clinics have hit 3 million client visits! This is a significant milestone for the program and its reach; check out our full blog post linked in our bio highlighting the accomplishments of our MHC program, and celebrating this achievement.

None of this would be possible without the iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor's vision and commitment through her foundation The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation to launch the first mobile health clinic in 2008, and the continued support of our generous donors, partner organizations, and everyone in our GAIA U.S. and Malawi communities. Thank you for your support of GAIA over the years.

Link to blog post: https://www.gaiaglobalhealth.org/updates/gaia-mobile-health-clinics-reach-3-million-visits

GAIA is honored to work with USAID to provide scholarships to nursing students to help bridge health worker gaps and deliver vital health and HIV services throughout Malawi. We are also excited to share our participation in the Nursing Leadership Initiative, a program launched by PEPFAR to continue to align health workforce investments with country priorities and strategies to strengthen the national health workforce that is critical for sustaining the HIV response.

Read more about the initiative at https://www.usaid.gov/global-health/health-areas/hiv-and-aids/information-center/blog/empowering-nurses-leaders-malawi

This , GAIA celebrates the passion of our nursing scholars and fellows, and their commitment to treating the people of Malawi. Visit our website to read about GAIA's nursing scholarship and fellowship programs, and learn about the experiences of GAIA Nursing Scholar Charity Banda and Nursing Fellow Mcwyson Wavala.

Thank you to Charity, Mcwyson, all our GAIA scholars, fellows, and nursing staff, and nurses around the world that work tirelessly to provide healthcare to so many, we celebrate you today and everyday.

Link to Blog Post: https://www.gaiaglobalhealth.org/updates/international-nurses-day-2024

Thank you to all who attended our Global Citizen Awards Reception in New York City last Thursday. It was a wonderful evening at the Yale Club honoring the Houston Family Foundation and Geoff Peck for their remarkable contributions to GAIA.